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Governing Members
Governing members participate in the governing committees of Blade.org.
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APC
In February 2007, APC and MGE UPS Systems combined to form a $3 billion (€2.4 billion) Critical Power & Cooling Services business unit of Schneider Electric. Together, APC and MGE offer the industry's most comprehensive product and solution range for critical IT and process applications in industrial, enterprise, small and medium business and home environments. APC and MGE solutions include uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), precision cooling units, racks, and design and management software, including APC's InfraStruXure® architecture, the industry's most comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution. Backed by the industry's broadest service organization and an industry leading R&D investment, the combined company's 12,000 employees help customers confront today's unprecedented power, cooling and management challenges. Schneider Electric, with 112,000 employees and operations in 190 countries, had 2006 annual sales of $18 billion (€13.7 billion). For more information on APC and MGE, please visit www.apc.com,. |
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Blade Network Technologies
BLADE Network Technologies is the leading supplier of Gigabit and 10G Ethernet network infrastructure solutions that reside in blade servers and "scale-out" server and storage racks. BLADE's new "virtual, cooler and easier" RackSwitch family demonstrates the promise of "Rackonomics" - a revolutionary approach for scaling out data center networks to drive down total cost of ownership. For the IBM BladeCenter, BLADE Network Technologies supports 8 Ethernet switches under the Nortel brand. BLADE has continued to drive innovation in the rapidly growing blade server market with multiple industry firsts: Layer 2-7 switch, 10G uplink, full 10G fabric switch, FCoE and stacking. The company's customers include over half of the Fortune 500 across 26 industry segments, and an installed base of over 220,000 network switches representing more than 1,000,000 servers and over 5 million switch ports. For more information, visit www.bladenetwork.net. |
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Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) provides the industry's leading platforms, solutions, and services for intelligently connecting, managing, and optimizing IT resources in shared storage environments. The company has pioneered the Storage Area Network (SAN) market with its comprehensive family of SAN infrastructure solutions. In addition, Brocade leads the industry with innovative File Area Network (FAN) solutions that provide the foundation for efficient file management. To ensure the most complete solution, Brocade also delivers a wide range of unique services offerings. As a result, Brocade helps organizations of all sizes increase efficiency, reduce costs, and maximize the value of their data assets. (www.brocade.com) |
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IBM
IBM is aligned around a single, focused business model: innovation. IBM takes its breadth and depth of insight on issues, processes and operations across a variety of industries, and invents and applies technology to help solve its clients' most intractable business and competitive problems. Although we remain committed, as ever, to lead the development of state-of-the-art technologies, and the products and service offerings built around them, we measure ourselves today by how well we help clients solve their biggest and most pressing problems.
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Intel Corporation
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com.
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NetXen, Inc.
NetXen stands at the forefront of a major shift in technology in the enterprise datacenter. Blade servers, server consolidation, and the convergence of network fabrics at 10 Gigabit speeds are driving an exponential increase in both data volumes and complexity. Against this backdrop of escalating network processing demands, IT managers must also address the challenge of system power consumption and cooling, and integrating more flexibility into their datacenters. NetXen offers a unique solution called the Intelligent NIC® designed specifically to address these needs.
NetXen Intelligent NICs are the industry's first programmable, multi-protocol networking solution designed for volume 10GbE markets. The Intelligent NIC silicon and board-level products are ideally suited for enterprises seeking cost-effective, high-performance solutions that alleviate critical IT infrastructure problems while scaling datacenter performance. The patented NetXen chip architecture delivers advanced capabilities for the next generation of server networking, substantially improving datacenter performance and agility.
NetXen, Inc. is a privately held company that manufactures intelligent 10-Gigabit Ethernet networking chips that advance enterprise datacenter performance and agility. Founded in February 2002 by chip design veteran Govind Kizhepat, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with an office in Pune, India. NetXen’s protocol- and OS-agnostic Intelligent NICs are designed for volume 10-Gigabit deployments and are targeted at server, storage, security and networking systems. Contact NetXen at +1 408-330-0010, sales@netxen.com or www.netxen.com. Click here for more information. |
Sponsoring Members
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Broadcom Corporation
Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. We provide the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art, system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything®.
Broadcom is one of the world's largest fabless semiconductor companies, with 2006 revenue of $3.67 billion, and holds over 2,200 U.S. and 900 foreign patents, more than 6,600 additional pending patent applications, and one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video and data. Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. Broadcom may be contacted at +1.949.926.5900 or at www.broadcom.com. |
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Bull
As one of the leading European IT companies, Bull delivers open, flexible and secure information systems. The group helps public and private sector customers transform their information systems, applying its know-how and expertise in three main areas:
- Capitalizing on its extensive mainframe experience, Bull designs and produces robust, innovative and open servers, based on industry-standard technologies;
- Building on its alliances with leading ISVs and long standing involvement with Open Source, Bull develops and implements flexible and interoperable application infrastructures which give business processes the freedom to evolve;
- Bringing together recognized expertise in end-to-end IT security, Bull secures data and exchanges that are so critical in preserving customers' business integrity.
Bull has a particularly strong presence in the public, healthcare, finance, telecommunications, manufacturing and defense sectors. Its distribution network and business partners cover more than 60 countries worldwide. For more information visit: http://www.bull.com |
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Devon IT
Devon IT is an information technology company that focuses on offering desktop devices, alternative desktop computing methods, and ultra-secure remote access solutions that provide enterprise customers with greater security, enhanced manageability, improved reliability, and lower costs. Devon IT serves organizations of all sizes, including many of the world's largest financial, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail companies, as well as various school systems and universities. Solutions from Devon IT are used by more than 20 Fortune 50 companies with largest deployments securely accessing more than 3,000 applications. Devon IT develops products which support IBM's Hosted Client Infrastructure and Blade Computing ecosystem and is a founding member of Blade.org. More information is available at www.devonit.com.
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Eaton Corporation
Flexible, adaptive power and enclosure solutions for IT, telecom and networking applications
Eaton is a diversified industrial manufacturer with 60,000 employees, selling $12.4 billion in aircraft, automotive and electrical systems in 125 countries. Eaton’s electrical business has a driving focus on data center solutions, from wiring closets to large data centers. Through R&D teams, industry specialists and sales channels dedicated to IT applications, Eaton manufactures, sells and supports infrastructure and power solutions for enterprise and business IT systems.
In the last year alone, Eaton introduced several pivotal technologies that provide much-needed relief for high-density computing environments. Topping the list are: PowerChain Management™ technologies to transform any power system into an easily managed strategic asset; rugged, attractive Powerware® enclosure solutions to house and protect IT equipment; and the revolutionary Powerware BladeUPS™, which is redefining the economics of power in blade server environments. |
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Emulex Corporation
Emulex Corporation creates enterprise-class products that intelligently connect storage, servers and networks. The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex award-winning HBAs, intelligent storage platforms and embedded storage products, including switches, bridges, routers and I/O controllers, to build reliable, scalable and high performance storage and server solutions. Emulex is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX) and corporate headquarters are located in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at http://www.emulex.com. |
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NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business
breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Our dedication to principles of simplicity,
innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data
management providers today.
Customers around the world choose us for our “go beyond” approach and broad portfolio of
solutions for business applications, storage for virtual servers, disk-to-disk backup, and more. Our
solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so
companies can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever
before. Customers rely on our industry-leading solutions to lower the cost of protecting their data,
businesses, and reputations.
We bring together the industry’s best partners and technology to deliver services that help
customers maximize what they are getting from their infrastructure. Our collaborative approach,
working as one team with one goal, means that customers get a solution that is just right for
them—on time and on budget. To support global businesses, we provide highly-responsive
support in local languages. From London to Austin, from Bangalore to Tokyo, we’ll work with
customers to solve their problems and help them reach their goals.
Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at
www.netapp.com. |
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QLogic Corporation
QLogic is a leading supplier of high performance storage networking solutions including Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI HBAs, iSCSI routers and storage services platforms for enabling advanced storage management applications. The company is also a leading supplier of server networking products including InfiniBand host channel adapters that accelerate cluster performance. QLogic products are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world via its channel partner community. QLogic products are also powering solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. QLogic is a member of the S&P 500 Index. For more information go to www.qlogic.com. |
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VirtenSys, Ltd.
VirtenSys, Ltd. is a leading supplier of PCIe IO virtualization silicon solutions. VirtenSys was incorporated in December 2005 and is led by a team of semiconductor and system veterans. VirtenSys is privately held with initial funding from Scottish Equity Partners, Celtic House Venture Partners and GIMV. Its headquarters and engineering operations are in Manchester, UK with sales and marketing offices in Silicon Valley. For further information, visit the VirtenSys web site at www.virtensys.com.
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General-Founding Members
General-Founding members are those general members who are also founding members of Blade.org.
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Fulcrum Microsystems
Fulcrum Microsystems Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company focused on developing interconnect switch chips for next-generation board and system designs. The company's devices change the paradigm for interconnect by offering low latency, fine-grained flow control, and high throughput which combine to simplify board design while providing flexible solutions for high-performance applications. More information can be found at www.fulcrummicro.com. |
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Zeus Technology
With over ten years industry experience, Zeus Technology develops application traffic management software, dramatically improving network and web-enabled applications making them run faster, more reliably, more securely and making them easier to manage. The Zeus solutions enable organizations to intelligently manage their applications, streamline operations and provide a seamless end-user experience.
As the only pure software traffic management solution, the Zeus products are flexible whatever your deployment environment; a purpose-built Zeus appliance, standard servers, blades, or even virtualized environments. |
General Members
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3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise data centers. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale data center resources. A private company based in Santa Clara, California, 3Leaf Systems is backed by investors including Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com or call 408-572-5900.
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Adaptec
Adaptec provides trusted storage solutions that reliably move, manage, and protect critical data and digital content. Adaptec's software and hardware-based solutions are delivered through leading channel partners and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to provide storage connectivity, data protection, and networked storage to enterprises, government organizations, medium and small businesses worldwide. More information is available at www.adaptec.com. |
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AFCO Systems
AFCO Systems (www.afcosystems.com) is a leader in Green Datacenter Resource solutions that bridge IT and Facilities to enable a new level of balance, visibiity and control over the critical datacenter resources: power, cooling and space. |
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Anders & Rodewyk
Anders & Rodewyk supports medium-sized enterprises and public institutions with holistic IT-solutions from concept to implementation. Our team members are certified in multiple IT disciplines with extensive expertise in consulting in a vendor neutral manner. |
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Aprius Inc.
Aprius is a privately held, early stage, venture funded company in Silicon Valley developing high bandwidth server interconnect systems, utilizing PCI Express over optics, that bring new levels of scaling, resource sharing and low-latency performance to the data center.
Aprius' products focus on providing various shared services to data center clusters over a cost-effective, high-bandwidth, low latency interconnect. Introducing a new category of systems known as 'Cluster Services Nodes' Aprius products will provide various services (compute, network IO, and storage resources) to nodes within a cluster over PCI-Express enabling applications such as: Server I/O Expansion, Computational Acceleration, I/O Virtualization and Pooling, and High performance shared storage. |
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Arista Networks
Arista Networks was founded to deliver Cloud Networking™ Solutions for large datacenter and computing environments. Arista offers best-of-breed 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches that redefine scalability, robustness, and price-performance. At the core of Arista's platform is the Extensible Operating System (EOS™), a pioneering new software architecture with self-healing and live in-service software upgrade capabilities.
Arista's team is comprised of experienced management and engineering talent from leading networking companies. Arista Networks markets its products worldwide through distribution partners, systems integrators and resellers with a strong dedication to partner and customer success. For more information, please visit www.aristanetworks.com or contact Arista Networks at info@aristanetworks.com or 650-462-5000.
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Astute Networks
Astute Networks is the leading provider of bladed storage solutions optimized for the most demanding applications on the edge of the network. Whether you are deploying applications such as Telco's AAA, IPTV/VoD, Military C4I, or video surveillance, our focus is to provide you the most reliable storage platform with the highest performance, greatest rack densities, and power efficiencies--while being easy to deploy and maintain. Our solutions enable you to achieve lower lifecycle costs, faster time to market, and more competitiveness for you and your company. We build-in the features needed to provide you edge storage solutions so you can focus on your business - not on your storage. Astute Networks is located in San Diego, CA and is backed by venture capital firms including Tallwood Venture Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, Scale Venture Partners, KeyNote Ventures, and U.S. Venture Partners. Additional information is available at www.astutenetworks.com.
Astute Networks - Edge Storage made Simple™
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Celestica
Celestica is a world leader in the delivery of electronics manufacturing services (EMS). Celestica operates a global manufacturing network with operations in Asia, Europe and the Americas, providing a broad range of integrated services and solutions to leading OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). For further information on Celestica, visit its website at www.celestica.com.
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Chelsio Communications
Chelsio Communications is the leading provider of 10 Gigabit Ethernet standards-compliant Unified Wire solutions for data centers. Chelsio's adapters enable the convergence of storage, clustering and networking applications onto a single high-performance unified Ethernet fabric. Chelsio's technology is being used in a wide range of applications, including Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Network (SAN), High Performance Computing, Video Editing, and Enterprise Servers. For more information, visit the company at www.chelsio.com. |
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CloudShield Technologies, Inc.
CloudShield is a provider of multi-gigabit, multi-function, programmable, deep packet inspection platforms targeted at large network operators. The company's unique capabilities allow content inspection, service control and security applications to perform at true gigabit speeds on even small packet sizes, and enable entirely new classes of applications and revenue generating services. Through its application partners, CloudShield has helped deliver solutions to carriers in North America, Europe and Asia as well as several important federal government customers. More information about CloudShield can be found at http://www.cloudshield.com/. |
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Continuous Computing
Continuous Computing provides integrated systems and services that enable telecom equipment manufacturers to rapidly deploy Next Generation Networks (NGN). Over 150 customers benefit from the company's unique blend of customized professional services, Trillium Protocol Software, and Advanced TCA and Compact PCI hardware. Continuous Computing helps customers reduce lifecycle casts, optimize data delivery, and accelerate deployments of NGN, 3G Wireless, and IP Multimedia Systems (IMS) infrastructure. |
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Double-Take Software
Double-Take® Software's products are easy to use and allow IT organizations of all sizes to dynamically move, protect, and recover workloads across any distance and any combination of physical and virtual server environments. Double-Take Software products for your evolving dynamic infrastructure are affordable and were designed specifically to protect business-critical data and applications while maximizing uptime for your organization. Double-Take Software provide solutions for disaster recovery, business continuity, and migration for Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Oracle and others, as well as full server protection and recovery of data, applications and your entire operating system. It is the solution of choice for thousands of customers world wide, from SMEs to the Fortune 500 in the banking, finance, legal services, retail, manufacturing, government, education and healthcare markets. Double-Take is an integral part of their disaster recovery, business continuity, workload management and overall storage strategies. For more information, please visit www.doubletake.com. |
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GoAhead® Software, Inc.
GoAhead® Software provides high availability (HA) and management software for equipment manufacturers responsible for ensuring availability of mission-critical systems and applications. GoAhead products and services help telecom, defense and aerospace equipment manufacturers achieve faster time to market and lower development costs. With more than 15,000 deployments worldwide, GoAhead SelfReliant® is the only proven, standards-based HA solution on the market. GoAhead delivers the software and the expertise necessary to ensure success for a broad range of development projects such as wireless base station controllers, Node Bs, softswitches, defense applications and industrial controllers to name a few. Every day, industry leaders such as Motorola, Alcatel, Italtel, Lockheed Martin and Honeywell entrust their HA needs to GoAhead. GoAhead is a privately held company with headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. For more information on GoAhead, visit www.goahead.com or call 425-453-1900. |
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Mellanox Technologies Ltd.
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, high-performance interconnect products that facilitate data transmission between servers and storage systems through communications infrastructure equipment. Our products are an integral part of a total solution focused on computing, storage and communication applications used in enterprise data centers, high-performance computing and embedded systems. Based on InfiniBand technology, our field-proven adapter and switch integrated circuits deliver industry-leading performance and capabilities, and serve as the building blocks for creating reliable and scalable interconnect solutions. In addition to supporting InfiniBand, Mellanox's next generation of products also support the industry-standard Ethernet interconnect specification.
Founded in 1999, Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and Yokneam, Israel. For more information on Mellanox’s solutions, please visit www.mellanox.com.
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Myricom Inc
Founded in 1994, Myricom, Inc., is a leading global supplier of high-performance networking solutions: network-interface cards (NICs), switches, and associated software. Myricom's Myri-10G products are standards-based 10-Gigabit Ethernet, fully interoperable with the 10Gb Ethernet products of other companies. Myri-10G NICs deliver wire-speed performance for conventional TCP/IP applications, and also have optional software distributions with firmware for low-latency, video, and other specialized applications. Myri-10G switches scale economically to thousands of ports.
Myricom products are used in many thousands of customer sites in more than 50 countries, including in many BladeCenter clusters. For example, the famous MareNostrum blade cluster at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center uses Myrinet-2000 adapters and switches to connect 2,560 blades. Myricom has been shipping Myri-10G HSECs for the BladeCenter-H since 2006. These HSECs are bundled with software support for all major operating systems, including Linux, Windows, Solaris, and VMware ESX. For more information, please visit www.myri.com. |
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Neterion, Inc.
Founded in 2001, Neterion Inc. has locations in Cupertino, California and Ottawa, Canada. Neterion delivers 10 Gigabit Ethernet hardware & software solutions that solve customers' high-end networking problems. The Xframe® line of products is based on Neterion-developed technologies that deliver new levels of performance, availability and reliability in the datacenter. Xframe, Xframe II and Xframe E include full IPv4 and IPv6 support, and comprehensive stateless offloads that preserve the integrity of current TCP/IP implementations without "breaking the stack." Xframe drivers are available for all major Operating Systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, HP-UX, IBM's AIX, Sun's Solaris and SGI's Irix. |
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NextIO, Inc.
NextIO is the leader in IO Gateway segment of the Virtualization market. Our ExpressConnect product suite and nControl software leverage the PCI Express standard for end-to-end connectivity. Using PCI Express as a transport medium is ideally suited for data center and dense computing environments since there are no new software or custom drivers required. We alone enable seamless I/O Virtualization to all standard industry endpoints (or devices) with industry standard drivers, encompassing both expansion and sharing opportunities. |
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ServerEngines LLC
ServerEngines LLC is a visionary supplier of silicon building blocks optimized for next generation enterprise computing. ServerEngines was formed in early 2004 and is based in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information, visit www.serverengines.com. |
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Sirius Computer Solutions
Sirius is a national IBM Premier Business Partner dedicated to helping customers implement Advanced Infrastructure Solutions that provide them with a competitive advantage and a positive return on investment. Backed by 25 years of IT experience, Sirius is a nationally-recognized Solution Provider with a certified team of sales and technical professionals who have the skills, product knowledge, and commitment to help customers develop and implement the right solution to solve their business needs. |
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Teradici Corporation
Teradici Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company developing innovative technology for next-generation computer form factors. Through a combination of unique algorithms and high-performance silicon processing, the company is focused on enabling a new approach for how personal computers are deployed and managed. Teradici is headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. More information is available at www.teradici.com. |
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VMware, Inc.
VMware, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC), is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems. The world's largest companies use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully leverage their existing computing investments and respond faster to changing business demands. VMware is based in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit www.vmware.com or call 650-475-5000.
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Voltaire Inc.
Voltaire is the worldwide leader in grid backbone solutions for networked computing in the next generation data center. Voltaire's integrated family of switching hardware and network virtualization software delivers the high-performance, intelligent backbone for grid computing architectures. Leveraging the InfiniBand standard, Voltaire solutions offer improved performance, utilization and scalability across compute clusters, storage and IP networks. Voltaire solutions are available from major systems vendors and integrators. More information about Voltaire is available at www.voltaire.com or by calling 1-800-865-8247. |
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Wyse Technology Inc.
Wyse Technology is the global leader in thin computing. Wyse and its partners deliver the hardware, infrastructure software, and services that comprise thin computing, allowing people to access the information they need using the applications they want, but with better security, manageability, and at a much lower total cost of ownership than a PC. Thin computing allows CIOs and senior IT professionals to reduce costs, manage risk, and deliver access to information. Wyse partners closely with industry leaders Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, and others to achieve this objective. Wyse is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices worldwide.
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